November Sales Figures

December 16, 2003 - In the race to be the best-selling video game this holiday, only one competitor can get the checkered flag. In November, that game was Mario Kart®: Double Dash!!™, exclusively for Nintendo GameCube™. According to NPDFunworld's November Toy Retail Sales Tracking Service (TRSTS), approximately 528,000 copies of Mario Kart: Double Dash!! were sold, easily besting any other video game on any system.

This feat is even more remarkable when you realize that Mario Kart: Double Dash!! was in stores for only 14 days in November, following its launch on Nov. 17.

Additional Nintendo highlights from the November TRSTS data include:

754,000 Nintendo GameCube systems were sold in November, making it the best-performing month in the system's history. The strong sales propelled Nintendo GameCube past Microsoft's Xbox in year-to-date sales.

Sales of hardware and software for Nintendo GameCube have increased at a faster rate than either of its console competitors so far this year.

Console sales, YTD versus 2002

o Nintendo GameCube: +61 percent

o Xbox: +5 percent

o PlayStation 2: -36 percent

Software sales, YTD versus 2002

o Nintendo GameCube: +60 percent

o Xbox: +59 percent

o PlayStation 2: +21 percent

As for Game Boy® Advance, more than 1.3 million units were sold in November, beating the nearest console competitor by more than 50 percent.

When combined, Nintendo hardware accounted for 57 percent of total hardware units sold in November.